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Uncertainty and complexity are two key issues to understand and explore in the current digital context. The management of these two issues becomes relevant for cyber security as the increase in connectivity and convergence of technologies creates not only opportunities for organizations and nations, but also spaces of instability and disruption that must be identified, anticipated and addressed. Therefore, this paper presents some concrete proposals to manage uncertainty and complexity in order to break the status quo of certainties and assume instability and volatility as natural sources in strategic and tactical decision making for both security/cyber security professionals and executives of companies and nations.
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Cano M., J.J. (2022). Managing Uncertainty and Complexity: Emerging Challenges in Cyber Security. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 468. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5_19
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